Main entry:

Wetherell, Sam, 1986- author.

Title & Author:

Foundations : how the built environment made twentieth-century Britain / Sam Wetherell.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

xii, 250 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 2016, under the title: Pilot zones : the new urban environment of twentieth century Britain.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Industrial Estate -- The Shopping Precinct -- The Council Estate -- The Private Housing Estate -- The Shopping Mall -- The Business Park -- Conclusion: The Burden of Obsolescence.

Summary:

"This book is a history of the British built environment from the late nineteenth century to the present. Unlike other urban histories of Britain, the book shows how the city helped produce rather than merely reflect the major intellectual and ideological currents that transformed its recent history. Each chapter of the book tells the story of a different type of urban space in Britain. The first part of the book traces the emergence of the industrial trading estate, the shopping center and the council estate. The second part shows how these three forms mutated into the private block of flats, the out-of-town shopping mall and the suburban office park. The story of these six forms touches on histories of criminology, histories of energy and heating, histories of consumerism and the history of housework and takes the reader to almost every major British city as well as to the United States, Singapore and the Britain's Empire in West Africa. Urban history in Britain has been dormant for too long and its hoped that this book will reignite the field. As the author explains, Foundations will be the first, comprehensive and academic history of Britain's modern built environment and thus will have a large and enduring readership both within and outside the academy"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780691193755 (hardcover)
0691193754 (hardcover)
9780691241760 (paperback)
0691241767 (paperback)
(electronic book)
9780691208558
0691208557

Subject:

Architecture and society Great Britain History 20th century.
Cities and towns Great Britain History 20th century.
Sociology, Urban Great Britain History 20th century.
Architecture et société Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Villes Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Sociologie urbaine Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE / General.
Architecture and society
Cities and towns
Sociology, Urban
Great Britain

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316990
Call No.: 316990
Copy: 1
Status: Available